Marty Baron
@PostBaron
On political endorsement https://wapo.st/3YmeD3T This is cowardice, with democracy as its casualty.
@realdonaldtrump will see this as an invitation to further intimidate owner
@jeffbezos (and others). Disturbing spinelessness at an institution famed for courage.
In 2019, Amazon accused Trump of seeking to prevent the company from being awarded a $10 billion Pentagon contract, claiming he had intervened in the process in order to hurt "his perceived political enemy." The contract, for cloud computing, was instead awarded to Microsoft, prompting a legal battle that ended in 2022, when the Defense Department announced that Amazon, Google and Oracle would also get a share.
